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Spent a bit of the show celebrating the life of Joe Sample, who sadly passed away last week.

After that, some nice downtempo goodies before dropping a pair of tracks off of Illmatic. Not that I ever need any excuses to play tracks off of Illmatic, but a documentary on the album called Time is Illmatic is playing here in town as part of the Calgary International Film Fest.

I managed to catch it this week, along with 3/4s of Calgary’s hip hop community, which was a total blast. If you’re a fan of hip hop and/or Nas, I highly recommend it. The movie definitely helped me discover why this album resonated so much with me when I first heard it.

After that, we wind it up and get you ready for some dance floor action with some breaks and house, even managing to fit in another Joe Sample track from his years with The Crusaders. Then we dropped into some Baltimore club, a newer track from Mighty Mark and DJ AngelBaby, and then some 10yr old Baltimore club classics. This style is so raw and unapologetically for-the-dancefloor, and that’s what I enjoy about it: A simple break beat, an 808 kick, and a quickly looped vocal sample: boom! done. I know it’s not quite that simple, and there’s some subtlety there if you listen for it, but the songs are generally very pure in their intent.

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Tracklist
artist – name [time]

Joe Sample – In All My Wildest Dreams [5:59 PM]
De La Soul – WRMS: Cat’s In Control
GROOVERS, The – Where You Belong
Tommy Largo – Night time
The Gap Band – Yearning For Your Love
Nas – Life’s A Bitch
Nas – One Love
MA DOOM (Masta Ace + MF DOOM) – Son of Yvonne
royceBIRTH – Masterclass
Maxwell – Sumthn Sumthn [GDNA (RE)Vision]
Curtis Mayfield – You’re So Good To Me (Mr Leigh T+W Dub)
Amerie – 1 Thing
Parliament – Flash Light (Slynk Remix) [6:30 PM]
The Crusaders – Street Life (Synapson vs Ben Jay Edit)
Skyy – High (Halve Soul & Olivier Boogie Edit)
KAYTRANADA feat SHAY LIA – Leave Me Alone
Drums of Death Feat. Yasmin – True (Extended Mix)
Paul Woolford – Untitled
Redlight – 9TS
Mighty Mark ft Dj AngelBaby – Avenue
DJ Tameil – I’m Rick James
Debonaire Samir – Charlie Brown (Technics Remix)
DJ Technics – Mr. Postman
DJ Ayres – Broke Ass Home [6:57 PM]